Stamp affixer



Oct. 9, 1923.

A. GOLDEN STAMP AFFIXER Filed March 21. 1921 j anon H306 MW W L the invention.

Patented Oct. 9, l923.-

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ASHER GOLDEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STAMP 'AFFIXER.

Application filed March 21, 1921. serial No. 454,086.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ASHER GOLDEN, citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Bronx, city of New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Stamp Aflixer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a stamp aflixer.

The object of the invention is the production of a device, by means of which postage stamps, labels and the like, which are connected in strips, and coated on one side with an. adhesive can easily be detached from the strips and applied to envelopes or other articles.

The organization of the invention comprises a barrel, rotatably supported between the sides of an open housing, with a guide plate having guide flanges, and a protecting and pressing wing. A moistening pad is detachably secured below the said guide plate.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 represents a sideelevation of an exemplifloat-ion of the improved stamp aflixer, with. a strip of postage stamps andenvelopes; Fig. 2 shows a top plan view of the stamp allixer with its strip of postage stamps; Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the aflixer; Fig;

4t shows a section of Fig. 2 on the line 4, 4 Fig. 5 is a section of Fig. 1 on the line 5, and Fig. 6 represents a fragmentary section similar to Fig. l of a modification of Referring to Figsfl to 5, inclusive, the stamp atfixer is shown to comprise an open housing. with the circular side walls 20, which latter have formed therewith the side arms 21 connected by the roof 22. Journal bearings 23 are formed in walls 20. Supporting flanges 24 and 25 are formed integral with each of the side arms 21 and support the moistening pad 27 which in this instance consists of a band of fabric with the operating end 28.

A guide plate 30 with the longitudinal guide flanges 31, the rear cross clamping flange 32 and the front cross clamping flange 33 having the protecting and pressing wing 34 is located upon the roof 22. The flanges 32 and 33 maintain the guide plate 30 in contact with said roof 22. The wing.

34 is preferably round at its tip end as in dicated at 35.

A drum 38 has formed. therewith the journals 39 that are journale d in the journal bearings 23 of the side walls 20. T 0 use the stamp aflixer, water is applied over the whole surface of the moistening pad 27, and a strip 40 of postage stampshas one end thereof, with a portion of said strip, wound around the barrel 38 and its other end is located upon the guide plate 30 with its longitudinal edges located under the longitudinal guide flanges 31. inclined to the plane of the envelopes 41 so that the water of the pad 27 will feed down to the operating end 28 thereof. The said pad 27 is next rubbed over the envelopes &1, preferably one at a time, or is rubbed over other articles located upon the table 42 and to which the postage stamps are to be attached. The tip of the wing 34 is brought to bear on the envelopes one after the other to flatten them. The said wing protects the adhesive on the bottom face of the postage stamps from the moisture in the pad 27. After each envelope has" been moistened bydrawing the'pad over its surface, the operator moves the aflixer to bring the postage stamps one after the other in contact with the envelope, and the stamps can then easily be detached from the strip and fastened in place. v 5

The invention may bemodified by locating the flanges 24; and 25 closer to the roof 22, so that the upper member of the pad 27 will bear against the roof 22.

In the modification shown in Fig. 6 the moistening pad comprises a plurality of layers of fabric which bear between the lower face of the roof 22 and the upper faces of the flanges 24L and 25.

It is to be understood that various modifications can be made in the stamp aflixer within the spirit of the claims.

Having described my invention what I desire to secure by Letters Patent and an open housing comprising side' walls with side airn's, supporting flinges formed with the side arms; a roof connecting the side arms, a guide plate bearing on said roof, the guide plate having longitudinalguide flanges on the sides thereof and having a rear cross flange and a front cross-flange,

the cross flanges clamping said guide plate to said roof, a protecting and pressing Wing extending from the front cross flange, a

moistening'pad supported on the flangesof the side arms.

Signed at the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, in the county of New York andState of New York, this 16th day of March A. D. 1921.

ASHER GOLDEN. 

